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Jack Tar Poems - Poems about Jack Tar


major storm on the horizon reported from the forecastle
...major storm on the horizon reported from the "Fo'c'sle" Though forever being a landlubber a vision analogous to the nether world deep within the bowels of the Earth immensely distant from the s......

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Categories: jack tar, absence, anxiety, destiny, god,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Lady from Kent
...A lubricious lady from Kent one night to a nightclub she went; there, she spied a young guy thought she'd give it a try; turned out, given that up for Lent! So she lingered around at the bar; ......

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Categories: jack tar, humorous,
Form: Limerick



Premium Member Condition Three, Wartime Cruising
...I was a good Buddhist jack tar, Confident to sail this ocean of time alone, All desire renounced and stowed away Like smuggled cargo I pretend is legal trade. I was well-practiced in the art of n......

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Categories: jack tar, adventure, allegory, desire, lust,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Slow Boat To China
...I was born in a landlocked getaway town Where all the colors were black, gray, or brown. Jobs at the steel mill were ratcheting down. It was not in my future to stay. So, I took a long walk off......

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Categories: jack tar, adventure, allegory,
Form: Rhyme
The Mariner
...The Mariner Crystal tears falling down my cheeks Behind the curtain face peeks My skin so pale with broken lips Wait for jack-tar and daily trips The mariner stood so great he is My soul is j......

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Categories: jack tar, hurt,
Form: I do not know?



Dolphins
... Were the dolphins the Mermaids of ancient times? Along with whales were they guilty of heinous crimes? Jolly Jack Tar, out sailing distant, tropical oceans, Did they succumb to their mis......

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Categories: jack tar, parody,
Form: Free verse
The Merchant Ship
...Deep ocean of azure blue Overhead seagulls circling flew In constant motion, heaving sides The old merchant ship upon it rides Rust scorched it's barnacled coat Salt encrusted railings......

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Categories: jack tar, adventure, sea, travel,
Form: Free verse
The Big Kahuna
...It was captain Macfarty the head of the party Commander of ship and of crew Who ordered “set sail” in pursuit of the whale That was known as Kahuna Kalloo It was huge it was quick and its scent m......

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Categories: jack tar, adventure, animals, mystery,
Form: Rhyme
And You Will Know Me By the Trail of Dead
...And you will know me by the trail of dead, the whistle of wind in cutthroat pipes, the jolly japes and spring heeled capers in the sepia pulp of the Sunday papers and in all the Jack Tar bilge in......

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Categories: jack tar, allegory, death, history, people,
Form: Verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things